The Arts/Cultural Desk

The 31-year friendship between the writers V. S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux began in an academic outpost in Uganda in 1966, when Mr. Theroux was 25 and Mr. Naipaul was 34. It ended in the spring of last year, when a spurned Mr. Theroux confronted Mr. Naipaul on a street in Kensington and asked why his last note had gone unanswered.

July 27, 1998artsNews

Cultural Desk

Shortly before he turned 18, V. S. Naipaul, a ''boy traveling to be a writer,'' left his native Trinidad for the first time and went to England to continue his education at Oxford University. Since then, his life and his art have been a series of journeys - arrivals and departures - as he has tried to find his way and his place in several worlds.

October 25, 2014, Saturday

Paul Theroux has described his onetime mentor, the Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul, as ''a grouch, a skinflint, tantrum-prone, with race on the brain.'' Mr. Theroux and Mr. Naipaul may have reconciled at a literary festival in Britain this week, but...

November 7, 2010, Sunday

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela issued a statement on Friday denying that she had given an interview to Nadira Naipaul, wife of V. S. Naipaul, in which Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was quoted making harsh statements about her former husband, Nelson Mandela, the...

January 12, 2006, Thursday

When the opportunity arose for a rare interview with V. S. Naipaul, I leapt at it. I had always admired Naipaul's novels, but it wasn't until I began reading more deeply and widely to prepare for the interview that I realized just how prescient...